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Where is home? Is it where you have been or where you are going? From India to China to Britain, Mexico, Africa, Syria and Iraq, the concert selections paint pictures of movement, faith and beauty across many cultures and time periods. The program ends with J.S. Bach’s uplifting Magnificat.

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Choruses of UC Davis

Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

Hosted by composer Abbie Betinis, our popular Courtroom Concerts take place at noon most Thursdays in the Landmark Center in downtown Saint Paul. This series features accomplished musicians and composers from the Twin Cities and surrounding area, as well as occasional musical newcomers to the area. These one-hour concerts are free and open to the public.

FREE Courtroom Concert: Maria Jette, Sonja Thompson, & Stephanie Arado

Landmark Center

FREE Courtroom Concert: Osip Nikiforov

FREE Courtroom Concert: Artaria String Quartet

FREE Lunchtime Concert: Artaria String Quartet

Westminster Presbyterian Church

¡Feliz nochebuena! ¡Feliz navidad! Join us at Navidad Nuestra (Our Christmas) to enjoy Christmas carols sung in the musical traditions of the composers’ homelands of Argentina, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the United States. From the locomotion of Cristian Grases’ El tren para Belén (Train to Bethlehem), the rhythms of cueca (a traditional dance rhythm from Argentina and Chile), carnavalito (a Bolivian folk dance), chacarera (a traditional dance from northwestern Argentina) in Ariel Ramírez’s Navidad Nuestra, Eric Whitacre’s peaceful and uplifting Glow, filled with lush harmonies and ethereal melodies, as if it is illuminating the darkness, to a world premiere by Ernesto Herrera, it's sure to be a magical evening filled with warmth and holiday spirit!

Navidad Nuestra: December in the Americas

Walt Disney Concert Hall

FREE Lunchtime Concert: Irina and Julia Elkina

FREE Courtroom Concert: Irina and Julia Elkina

FREE Courtroom Concert: Choro Borealis

FREE Lunchtime Concert: MN Opera Resident Artists

FREE Courtroom Concert: MN Opera Resident Artists

FREE: Courtroom Concert: Clara Osowski and Ahmed Anzaldúa

FREE Courtroom Concert: Clara Osowski, Steve Staruch, & Casey Rafn

Students in the Vocal Consort certificate program perform a final recital in the Princeton University Chapel.

Vocal Consort

Princeton University Chapel

FREE Courtroom Concert: Isles Ensemble

FREE Courtroom Concert: Florestan Chamber Music – Stephanie Arado, violin; Ruth Marshall, cello; Garret Ross, piano

With superb musicianship and an infectious camaraderie, Speaking in Tongues creates an environment that is engaging and exhilarating. The collective sound of the group draws on so many sources that listeners from all walks of life can connect easily. Four outstanding musicians blend music from four different cultures on a stage full of instruments from all over the world. The result – a concert experience that is spellbinding, entertaining, and unprecedented. Speaking in Tongues is master drummer, multi-instrumentalist and composer Sowah Mensah from Ghana, Enrique Toussaint, the virtuoso bassist from Mexico City, Twin Cities master percussionist Marc Anderson, and Gao Hong, one of the world’s foremost performers on the Chinese four-stringed lute, the pipa. When considering the individual voices, one is struck by the truly distinctive quality of this music and the level of skill and musical maturity required to shape it into the spirited and the coherent musical expression that it is. Their music has been described as a West African drum ensemble driving along under the butterfly wings of an Asian melody, the romance of Brazilian jazz orchestrated with Middle Eastern drums, and folk music from a new world. Rich compositions set up by free roaming improvisations lead the listener through open landscapes of gentle rustlings and sparse instrumentation and then, with a subtle turn, plunge them into thick forests populated by percussion and bass.

FREE Courtroom Concert: Speaking in Tongues

Hosted by composer Abbie Betinis, our popular Courtroom Concerts take place at noon most Thursdays in the Landmark Center in downtown Saint Paul. This series features accomplished musicians and composers from the Twin Cities and surrounding area, as well as occasional musical newcomers to the area. These one-hour concerts are free and open to the public.,

FREE Courtroom Concert: Dave Brubaker, violin & Miryana Moteva, pianist

Abbie Betinis

Composer

Events

Past events

Dec 6, 2024

Choruses of UC Davis · Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

Mar 21, 2024

FREE Courtroom Concert: Maria Jette, Sonja Thompson, & Stephanie Arado · Schubert Club

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